Amateur Astronomy on Computer and Smartphone

According to public surveys surprisingly many people relaxes after work by going out and laying down underneath the starry sky in the evening and admiring its beauties which are detectible by free eye. Astronomy as a professional field may be regarded by most people remote mystical and difficult however in our present world several methods exist for its easy and fast learning to acquire the related skills. In this book we deal with such kind of freely downloaded programs and online applications which can help also a layman to easily acquire astronomy basics. We discuss scientific astronomical background only in a necessary small compass because on the one part about this several professional books are available on a high professional standard on the other hand this book focuses on how is it possible to come to know astronomy by informatics background. There are many computer- and smart phone programs which are recommended to use supporting detection by amateur telescope and free eye. They aren’t weather- and time of day dependent they can be used also in case of overcast and daytime.